superpower
part of speech
noun (a superpower, superpowers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A very powerful country with great military and economic strength that has a big influence over the world. tree →
2) An amazing power beyond normal humans, like flying or being invisible, that a superhero has. tree →
3) (informal) A special talent or something you are very good at. tree →
sense in the lessons
In history and geography lessons, superpowers are the strongest countries in the world. In comics and films, superheroes have superpowers. In everyday talk «my superpower is…» jokingly names a talent. Phrases: «world superpower», «have a superpower», «if you could have any superpower».
examples
- If you could have any superpower, what would it be? tree →
- Superman's superpowers include flying and super strength. tree →
- After a great war, two countries became superpowers. tree →
- (informal) My mum's superpower is finding lost socks. tree →
- A superpower has a lot of influence in the world. tree →
- In the story, the girl discovered she had a superpower. tree →
- (informal) Kindness is your superpower. tree →
note
One word. Countable: «superpowers». Two very different senses: a country (real) and magical powers (fiction). The joke sense is informal.
In the corpora
- Counting is a superpower in biology.
- Imagine unlocking the other ninety!" It feels like a secret superpower waiting inside your head.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «superpower» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.